JoshK

Holy crap! That is way more ice than when Paco and I did it a couple of years ago. Looks great!

me? Churchill is a dumbass fer sure, but i'm not sure what I said that makes me a dumbass.

Not up north thankfully...

I just find the defense of the Canadian Space Agency as anything more than a piggyback program on the U.S. space program quite amusing. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada - I just spent my spring break up there - but in terms of technology, space exploration and the like...c'mon now...

I go to CU right now and can atest that this story is much larger nationally than you would ever know at school. Literally 99% of the student body doesn't give a shit any more and hardly even talks about it. It is pretty amazing how much attention it has gotten cause nobody at school cares any more.

Eric, did you guys do the traverse or that "direction" variant we did where I fell, badly rope-burned my hand and proceeded to spaz around for half an hour or more? -josh

For some reason the other day I started playing Flight Sim 2004. I've played pretty much all versions of flight sim since back in the day but hadn't touched it in a while. I saw a scenery pack for the northwest online so I ordered it. The cascades look pretty damn amazing in it for a simple computer sim. You can actually pick out the individual mountains very distinctly as opposed to the default scenery where it's just fairly generic mountains. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat...here are some pics: Baker & Shuksan from over concrete: The Cascade Pass / Eldorado area from over concrete:

I would find it very amusing if this started a few week period of extremely heavy snowfall and the WSDOT had to do the WA Pass opening all over again hahahaha.

I agree about the volcano faces. They are pretty ugly.

Mount Triumph's North Face biatches

How do you enchain a face??

Lexsi are about as boring of a luxury car as you can get...The are, in essence, a Japanese cadillac.

Hey, let me know where you will be in CO. I will likely be staying for a summer semester in Boulder, so I should be around for a portion of the summer. -josh

Hey Khasikmoron, have you ever thought that maybe the reason has more to do with the fact that the ANWR is our land and the deserts of the middle east are not? It's not a matter of which is worth preserving (though I think 99% of the people would choose northern Alaska over Saudi Arabian desert) but more a matter of what we can preserve.

Even though I oppose drilling in ANWR, i might at least be able to understand the opposition's support for it if there was more than a trivial amount of oil to be gained. I mean, if it provided 10 years of oil, I could see their point, but for less than a years worth of oil? How worthless...it just makes very little sense other than providing some profits for a few oil companies. Oh wait, now it does make sense...

It seems to me any terrain where a fall will be deadly should be protected by the guide. If this means slowing the party down to place pickets on steep traverses, etc, it seems to me this should be taken into account for climbing time and done, because you can't expect a client to not eat shit at a bad time.

Interestingly enough I think New Zealand is probably the most similar to Western Washington in terms of overall climate and similarity and variety of bio-zones. But, true, though I have not been, the New Zealand Alps appear to be simply breathtaking. It's also a climbers paradise...more sheep than people.

Yeah, MusicMatch sucks. Honestly, I think the "drug use" thing is about the same as any MP3 player. I own both an iPod and two non-apple MP3 players. The iPod is nothing special, IMHO. It's pretty looking and overpriced (but I still really like it) but there is nothing that makes it magic over the others. For the huge jukebox players, however, i think the only two options are the iPod or the creative zen slide. The other types of scrolling devices just don't measure up for huge collections. If I had a recommendation for a "climbing" mp3 player I would say replacable batteries is number one. A player with a "whopping" 15 hours of playtime isn't much use after 1 day in the hillz.

I think that actually sounds really cool. Japanese gardens and springs are beautiful, and it would be really neat to see a hot spring developed around here in that style. From the pics I have seen I do not find naked disgusting hippies surrounded by ghetto platforms and trash to be "natural" or "soothing." I'd take paying a few bucks to soak in the ambience of a japanese-styled spring any day, thanks.

I took lessons at wings aloft, i definitely liked them. I actually found flying a plane the first time way easier than driving a car the first time. I took off, flew the entire flight and landed the first time. I owe it all to growing up on microsoft flight simulator i suppose

Thankfully an extra 4 miles on a snow-free road on a mountain bike is no prob...

That muvo is sweet, i hadn't seen that one yet. For the same price it's about 10x more useful the suckfle, err...shuffle.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Is it currently accessible...in other words, is the road free of snow? The end of the road is at 2000 feet so I was assuming it would be.

That trail to White pass is gorgeous. I have been that way before. Paul, any clue if that trailhead is accessible, or close to accessible?

1.) Do you think the suiattle river road is drivable to downney creek? I was imagining so due to the rather unimpressive snowpack this year. 2.) Did they ever fix the white chuck river road to get to the south side of glacier peak? If so, any clue if this is drivable?